Fostering Communicative Competence and Motivation through ComunicARTE Program

Sonia Lara, María Carmen González-Torres, Sara Ibarrola-García and Ana Zúñiga
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Sonia Lara: School of Education and Psychology, Universidad de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain
María Carmen González-Torres: School of Education and Psychology, Universidad de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain
Sara Ibarrola-García: School of Education and Psychology, Universidad de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain
Ana Zúñiga: School of Education and Psychology, Universidad de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 5, 1-18

Abstract: The objective of this article is to analyse the potential of ComunicARTE, an innovative Spanish Language teaching/learning program that uses project-based learning to develop dialogic spaces which promote the communicative competence of Spanish students, together with social, emotional and motivational outcomes. Two schools have been observed with this in mind: an experimental one using this program and a control one. This is a longitudinal study with pre-and post-test data which analyses 170 children at the beginning of their fifth year and the end of their sixth year in primary school. Quantitative tests have been used to assess their communicative competence and motivational orientation in the classroom. The results obtained are discussed.

Keywords: communicative competence; reflective thinking; learning motivation; language teaching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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